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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1918
Page
2
Woolwich and nearby towns enjoy a busy social spell with visits from Berlin Mills and Auburndale families. Local residents, including the Bartletts, Lowells and Marshalls, attend gatherings at Nequasset Lake and in Bath while shipyard workers seek rents across the river.
A busy Grange social led by W. L. Berry James T. McMahan and Manfret Newdick featured ice cream on sale and games of various kinds. The event netted about 12 dollars in gross receipts and was well patronized despite rain. A committee led by Miss Carolyn Stevens L. H. Rowe and Joseph G. Stevens plans another program next Saturday.
A large school of whales off Penobscot Bay startled Bath residents after a North Star near collision incident. Captain Thomas N. Brackett and crew on the sloop Alice and Leslie described a 65-foot whale ramming their boat, tearing the seine, causing leaks, and prompting pumps and emergency repairs at New Harbor.
The Hunnewell family of Olivia, Angie, and Richard Hunnewell from Woolwich Maine express gratitude for neighborly support during their bereavement and for the beautiful floral offerings received.
Mr and Mrs Henry C Rowe occupy a new home at Thornes Head praised for its artistic grounds and shrubbery. The site overlooks a broad expanse and a large American flag flies from a mast peak visible to motorists along the highway between Freeport and Brunswick.
Mrs Alfred Tarbox and son Le mont died Wednesday in Southport while Bath records indicate birth records did not exist before 1892. City Clerk Grassy received a letter from H W Cameron now in Shanghai seeking a birth record. Former Capt John Sonia joins Kelley Spear Co yard as expert blacksmith. Officer Foley faces multiple job choices after a vacation. Parents worry nights as sons serve in the American army and community offers sympathy amid wartime hardship.
The body of Mrs. Florence Blood who drowned in Lake Nequasset last week was sent to Carmel for burial. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Chase travel to Boston to join relatives for an automobile trip through the White Mountains. Masons finish brick work on the Nurse's Home foundations. occupancy to follow in about two months. At Small Point dogfish abundance ends trawling, prompting hand fishing as gear is destroyed. Mackerel largely gone. bluefish arrive driven inshore by dogfish. Twenty years ago sharks and dogfish pushed bluefish to Merrymeeting Bay where many died in freshwater.
Orrin Haskell of Togus visits his daughter Mrs S M Ward. City power and streetcar service briefly fail as gas and electric lights go out in parts of Bath. Sugar use rises as residents conserve for sugar cards. Canoes appear on the river as paddling remains common. Annie Goodman of Bath, now in New York City, becomes engaged to Lieut George Calder, Calais native and son of Capt and Mrs George Calder. Goodman is a Brown's Business College graduate.
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